Associate

Job description

Linklaters LLP seeks Associate in New York, NY to draft, negotiate and document indentures, credit agreements, offering circulars and various other legal documents concerned with capital markets, finance and securitization practice. Advise on legal structuring of complex financial mechanisms. Work as a key resource and communication point between our US-law practice and our global practice (including the UK, Germany, Hong Kong and Japan) specifically when these practices are working alongside each other on cross-border deals which require legal analysis from numerous jurisdictions. Provide specialized securitization-related structuring advice on cross-practice finance and corporate transactions which require the use of securitization, asset backed securities or other asset backed finance structures. Facilitate Legal research related to US finance and securitization law, specifically as it relates to credit risk retention, bankruptcy and true sale, ERISA and Tax. Advise tier 1 banks and Fortune 500 companies on New York securities law and U.S. federal securities law, including Rule 144A and Reg S issuances, U.S. credit risk retention and Volcker Rule issues. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Ma...